Now you’re probably not going to come across anything like that, but you can still turn a quick profit with a bit of searching. The trick is to find available domain names which have some commercial value, snap them up and then list them for sale on a site like Sedo.com.
Lisa from The Write Life here. It really all depends on the kind of work. A writer who lands a recurring gig with a content company or a business might make a few thousand dollars a month, depending on time spent and the rate paid.